Wind tunnel distributed temperature sensing with actively heated fibers and microstructures for detecting wind direction

Wind tunnel tests were performed using distributed temperature sensing with actively heated fibers that had microstructures attached in opposing directions on neighboring fibers. These microstructures created a temperature difference between fibers that depended on wind speed, providing a prototype for distributed sensing of wind direction. These data are connected to a publication detailing this work and method, "Distributed observations of wind direction using microstructures attached to actively heated fiber-optic cables". Data are stored in a netcdf format and includes the instrument reported temperature ('instr_temp') and calibrated temperature ('cal_temp') with the various parameters tested in the linked paper available as coordinates, labeled along an 'expname' dimension. The included ipython notebooks provide examples and explanations for using these laboratory data.